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have united with the Glen Nevis glacier, and added to the boulders 
upon Blar nan Cleireach. He says that the general character of 
the boulders brought by the two glaciers differed. Granites of 
various kinds were brought down by the left flank of the Glen More 
glacier, and by the right flank of the Glen Nevis glacier. Mixed 
with these granites are occasional blocks of mica schist with 
garnets. 
The left flank of the Glen Nevis glacier, he says, seems to have 
brought mica schists of various degrees of hardness, in some cases 
passing almost into quartzite. With these is mixed an occasional 
small block of true quartzite from Sgor a Mhaim and Stob Ban. 
Occasional blocks of porphyry are also met with. One or two 
fragments of actinolite, which is found in situ above Glen Nevis 
House, may also indicate the course of the Glen Nevis glacier. They 
were found on the road near Blarmachfaoldach. 
On the left of the river Nevis, above Glen Nevis House, 
innumerable blocks, mainly of mica schist, occur. They have probably 
come partly from Coire Riabhach , partly from the shoulder of Ben 
Nevis above Achriabhach. 
At the entrance into Glen Nevis, on the E. slope of the Cow Hill, 
above a small burial-ground, the stream called Allt Eas an l-Slinein 
cuts through detrital matter consisting mainly of granite boulders. 
It has long formed quite a quarry for building stone. One large 
granite block, found on the opposite side of the Nevis, furnished stone 
for the whole front of the Belford Hospital, Fort William. 
On the right of the lower Nevis also, towards Inverlochy and 
Torlundy, there are immense mounds and ridges of detrital matter, 
the material of which, Mr. Livingston says, has “ an imperfect 
stratification” — “such as might be produced if it fell from some 
height.” He therefore supposes that the detritus was brought 
down by surface streams on the Glen Nevis glacier, and by others 
flowing on to that of Glen More. 
He says there are also “ remarkable lines, undoubted moraines, 
occupying great part of the area stretching towards Spean Bridge. 
One of these begins at the foot of the hill on the left of the Lundy, 
and may be traced almost continuously to Blar Odhar , a distance of 
eight or nine miles. The part near Glen Nevis appears to have been 
formed by a glacier moving up in the direction of the Spean, while 
